Carmen Mörsch

Carmen Mörsch drawn by Lena Eriksson .

Carmen Mörsch (* 1968 in Kaiserslautern ) is an artist , cultural scientist and art educator . From 2008 to 2019 she was head of the Institute for Art Education at the Zurich University of the Arts and has been professor for art didactics at the Mainz University of Art since 2019 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1987 at the state-integrated comprehensive school in Kaiserslautern, Mörsch studied fine arts between 1989 and 1994 at the comprehensive university in Kassel and was awarded a scholarship to the Facultad de Bellas Artes at the Universidad de Salamanca in 1992/93 . She then completed a post-graduate course at the UdK Berlin at the Institute for Art in Context until 1998 and a post-graduate course in "Cultural Studies Gender Studies" at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg from 2001 to 2003 .

In 2003 she became professor for material culture and its didactics at the seminar material and visual culture of the "Institute for Cultural Studies Art-Textile-Media" at the Carl von Ossietzky University. She also carried out research for the Lower Saxony State Association of Art Schools and was a scientific companion for art education at documenta 12 in 2006/2007 . In 2008 she moved to the Zurich University of the Arts and took over the management of the Institute for Art Education.

Mörsch has been a professor of art didactics for teaching at the Mainz Art Academy since 2019.

Research priorities

Mörsch has been working as a freelancer since 1994 and works on projects at the interface between culture, education and research. Her research and teaching are particularly dedicated to concepts and practices of art education from a queer-feminist, post-colonial and discrimination-critical perspective.

In her book Teilhabeorientierte Kulturvermittlung: Discourses and Concepts for a Reorientation of Publicly Funded Cultural Life, published in 2016 by transcript Verlag, Birgit Mandel writes about Carmen Mörsch's practice of critical art mediation as she introduced it to the public debate at documenta 12. There a distinction is made between affirmative, reproductive, deconstructive and transformative approaches in art mediation and the institution is made visible as an actor and possible intentions are questioned. She brought questions of intersectionality and participation into the discussion and presented a broad understanding of current mediation with her standard work “Time for Mediation”. Ute Pinkert , Professor of Theater Education at the Berlin University of the Arts, writes in 2016 about the practice as represented by Carmen Mörsch:

"If, in relation to Carmen Mörsch, art mediation is understood as a practice that is about 'inviting third parties to use art and its institutions for educational processes: analyzing and questioning them, deconstructing them and changing them if necessary' (cf. . Mörsch 2009: 9), a criterion becomes visible with the help of which art mediation can be distinguished from other fields of work in art education. This criterion would be the explicit reference of this practice to the institutions of art. "

- kubi-online.de

Publications

• From Oppositions to Interstices: Some Notes on the Effects of Martin Rewcastle, the First Education Officer of the Whitechapel Gallery, 1977–1983 , in: Raney, Karen (ed.): Engage No. 15, Art of Encounter, London, 2004, pp. 33-37
• Socially Engaged Economies: Living by and with artistic participation projects and art education in England , in: Texts on Art, No. 53, March 2004
• Application: Proposal for a youth project dealing with forms of youth visibility in galleries , in: Harding, Anna (ed.): Magic Moments. Collaborations between Artists and Young People, London: Black Dog, 2005, pp. 198-205
• A short history of artists in schools , in: Lüth, Nanna; Mörsch, Carmen (ed.): Children make art with media, Munich: Kopaed, 2005
• In the paradox of the great K. On the history of the impact of the significant art in the art school , in: Mörsch, Carmen; Fett, Sabine (ed.): Interface between art and mediation. Contemporary work in art schools, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2007, pp. 360–377
• Government technology and resistance practice: polyphony and team orientation in the research process , in Pinkert, Ute (ed.): Body in the game. Ways to research theater pedagogical practices, Uckland: Schibri, 2008, pp. 175–188
• Carmen Mörsch and the research team of documenta 12 Mediation (ed.): Art Mediation 2. Between critical practice and service at documenta 12 , Zurich: diaphanes, 2009
• Glatt und Reerborstig: Justification Strategies for the Arts in Education , in: Gaus-Hegener, Elisabeth; Schuh, Claudia (ed.): Weaving networks - building structures. Arts for children and young people, Oberhausen: Athena, 2009, pp. 45–60
• Nora Sternfeld: The educational disproportion , in: Springerin, No. 2, 2009
• Cooperation between critical art mediation and art institutions of criticism , in: Lüth, Nanna, et al. (Ed.): Medien art conveying, Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2011, pp. 19–31
• Art mediation in cultural education: actors, history, potentials and lines of conflict , in: Federal Center for Political Education (ed.): Dossier cultural education, 2011
• Beyond access. Subsequent introductory thoughts on the workshop ‹Art Education in the Migration Society› , in: Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) et al. (Ed.): Art education in the migration society. Reflections at a workshop, Berlin / Stuttgart: Institute for Foreign Relations, 2011
• Watch this space! - Taking a position in cultural mediation , in: Mira Sack, et al. (Ed.): Theater Vermittlung Schule (subTexte 05), Zurich: Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, 2011
• Research into relationships upon relationships: ‹Art Education in Transformation› as an overall project , in: Settele, Bernadett, et al. (Ed.): Art education in transformation. Results and perspectives of a research project, Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2012, pp. 299–317

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Carmen Mörsch , Kunsthochschule Mainz, February 24, 2019
2. ^ Time for mediation - Le temps de la médiation - Tempo di mediazione. Retrieved February 3, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Theater and Education. Potentials and areas of tension in a relationship. In: kubi-online. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .